Tag: RIAA
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RIAA Shenanigans – Radio Clash Podcast gets it’s first takedown
So yesterday I woke up to this email: July 20, 2020 Radioclash.comBradler & Krantz GmbH & Co. KG X20-440681595272916 Dear Sir or Madam: I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America,Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whosemember companies create, manufacture and distribute approximately…
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Cease and Desist Mark 2: Beastles gets pulled by the blue meanies
Years ago, on a different host and a different URL I got a Cease and Desist from EMI via the MCPS-PRS for a mashup I did…interestingly I haven’t been hassled since then, til now. I’m mirroring the Beastles ‘Ill Submarine’ and it seems the RIAA & Universal is leading an attack on it, despite the…
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Kids, Lawns and Unhappy Campers
I must say this is a strange one – a NPR intern writes that she’s not owned many albums in her life but has 11,000 songs – fairly typical for that generation, as much as you might deplore it. Then Oscar the Grouch, sorry David Lowery comes along and his long toilet-roll rant about how…
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Tip jar for donations
I’ve added a tip jar to the blog, something that after nearly 8 years I feel slightly embarrassed about, but sadly this stuff doesn’t pay for itself…I’ve not got any money coming in at the moment, and certainly I would never run ads or try and monetise the blog (the very word chokes in my…
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Calling out RIAA and MPAA lies over SOPA & PIPA
Or to use their term ‘misinformation’. Really the RIAA and MPAA don’t seem to know when to lick their wounds and give it a rest, judging by their petty and frankly wrong response to the successful Internet Blackout and actions by Wikipedia and Google – so it’s nice to see Techdirt calling them out line…